Yo, am I the only one who was brought up to have proper manners anymore? I mean, I was raised that it is unspeakable rude to make personal inquiries of people you don't know, and almost everyone you do, unless you've known said person for a long time, long enough to recognize that something out of ordinary is up. Otherwise, you keep your mouth ( Read more... )

Word to all my medically-oriented friends: If you end up going to Brown Med School, for the love of God, stay far, far away from the department of Community Health. Because, my God. WORSE PEOPLE/DEPARTMENT EVER. They are disorganized and inefficient and evil and somehow it is never their fault, except that it IS ( Read more... )

~ It turns out to be very difficult to do get yourself to do anything productive when ( Read more... )

Update!

Work is going well, with the occasional exception of wrestling with administrators who submit materials six months late, have the materials completely wrong so that they have to be sent back to be re-done correctly, and then them suddenly deciding they needed the results for those materials yesterday. Have also submitted my application to ( Read more... )

I have had the ARR! song "Bull-gine Run" stuck in my head, on a continuously repeating loop. All. Day. Long. I'm about ready to send a few pirates to Davy Jones' locker, because I can't get it to stop and all my co-workers are giving me weird looks and I am being TORMENTED. Waugh!

I hate snow ( Read more... )

I now have a dent in my nose, and it is sore to touch. Considering the way things are going, I've probably sustained a hairline fracture to my nose bone and microscopic pieces of bone have probably broken off and are working their way into my brain as we speak, so that I'll wake up in a week and realize that I've been lobotomized ( Read more... )

*splutters ( Read more... )

At last! My new laptop has finally arrived, after a complicated interlude where FedEx tried to deliver it while I was at work, me calling them to explain that I can't meet the package until after work during the week and arranging to have it delivered after 5PM, me expectantly waiting most of the evening yesterday for it, me calling FedEx back to ( Read more... )

Gah, what a week. Work has been difficult, what with having to cope with pressure to find missing files that the dean insisted were absolutely, positively nowhere in her office, despite having been the last to have them (and then finding said files in her office), major re-organizing of various stuff, only a third of which I have any idea what the ( Read more... )